When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said, “You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!”

and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.

The angel then threw him into the abyss and locked and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

Then the devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to his needs.

Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus healed him so that he could speak and see.

When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.

They begged him if they could only touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.

Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’

But he refused. Instead, he went out and threw him in prison until he repaid the debt.

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

The same day Sadducees (who say there is no resurrection) came to him and asked him,

No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.

And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.